Questions tagged [seo]

Search Engine Optimization is the set of steps that can be taken to improve your page rank in search engines. Topics include: sitemaps, metadata, canonical links, search pagination, h1 and title tags, and url format.

Having the latest Joomla 3.9.1, when I insert tags in articles, the url when I hover over the tags under the article from a category blog page is example.com/component/tags/tag/my-example-tag.
I have ...

I just found out a major SEO issue and while I have solved it for the time being; I am trying to figure out why it may have occurred in the first place and if there was mistake or is it something to ...

A client wants to build a new Joomla website in two phases. The first phase is a very simple website with mainly a blog. The blog would appear on the home page. The second phase will include the rest ...

Recently i purchase theme based on SP PageBuiler and description says it is included as Pro version. But SPpagebuilder forums required their subscription witch i of course don't have... And theme dev ...

Over the last couple of years I have taken over a website made up of several parts, ie there were some traditional html pages, a php “wiki” installation and a similar php “knowledgeable” installation.
...

my site was working fine till a few months ago thanks to "jch plugin" and "cache plugin" and page load time improved to 3 seconds and response time under 1 second.
but suddenly response time went up ...

I'm trying to set up a multilingual site for Danish and English (US) languages. I've turned on the option "Remove URL Language Code" in the Language Filter plugin. This does remove the "da" codes from ...

I am using version 3.6.5. After some SEO inspection, we realized that some article pages are using duplicate page titles (the site name being the page title).
I compared the article whose page title ...

I'm a web designer working for a cctv company. the website is built with Joomla CMS and i'm working on it for almost 2 years. i have seo and speed problems with the template. i'm considering changing ...

Joomla adds canonical tag to almost all pages that refers to themselves, so they will not be indexable (I checked URLs by Doctor SEO extension in FF) and they are not shown in google search result (i ...

I am looking for a way to redirect joomla to a different page without changing the url in the address bar.
We currently have a site setup that when it encounters a 404 page (eg. site.com/fake-url) it ...

I need to change the alias of a K2 article from id-alias1 to id-alias2.
The issue is that search engines have already indexed the url with id-alias1 so I need to use a 301 redirect from id-alias1to id-...

When writing Joomla articles I tend to leave out the meta information under publishing options, but should I be including it and if so, what benefit (if any) will I notice as regards page ranking?
I ...

so I have a Joomla Website with a lot of content (10k+ items acumulated over the last 10 years).
I want to remove the Content of the first 5 Years because it costs a lot of Crawler Budget for Google. ...

I have created several categories in my Joomla site to keep my articles organised but I have noticed that Google can see these categories and the category id and name is being added randomly to the ...

1) Is it OK if i make short URL for almost every article in my Joomla! site
like http://myjoomlasite.com/4rhd789d?
2) Is it OK if some of the articles has more than one menu?
3) What is the best way ...

I have a Joomla! + K2 site that uses categories as main landing pages with articles filling in various sections of the page. Thus, I don't want articles to be seen or indexed by Google individually. ...

First of all, this is not the same question as can be found here: (Redirect URLs using Redirect component or .htaccess).
What I want to know is what HTTP Status Code (for e.g. 301, 302, 303, etc...) ...

with testmysite.thinkwithgoogle.com i tested an old Joomla 1.5 website and i got really bad results. I managed to working on some points and it was succesfull. Now i have a few points open.
Eliminate ...

6 months ago I completely deleted my old 2.5 Joomla site and replaced it with a new site using a new template.
Now in the Google Search Console there are thousands of crawl errors. All the errors are ...

When i redirect a page to another page in redirect component, It doesn't work.
in my site when i write something at the end of the url, it redirects on the home page.
for example
http://www.farafan-...

In some sites in their home pages, as u scroll down, modules appear one by one.
I think this enhances page load time. How can i do this in Joomla? Is it doable? Is there a plugin or something for this ...